Defendant, jilted by his girlfriend, went to the home of her new suitor and attacked him with a knife, causing severe lacerations. At trial, the theory of defense was that defendant suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder, as a result of a childhood tragedy and service in Vietnam, and was in a dissociative state or psychogenic fugue at the time of the assault and thereby lacked the capacity to know or appreciate the nature of his acts...
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